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Stemonoporus affinis

Stemonoporus affinis
Photo: Alston, A. H. G.; Hooker, Joseph Dalton; Trimen, Henry, Public domain
Family
Dipterocarpaceae (Dipterocarp family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Sri Lanka (Knuckles massif)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Stemonoporus affinis is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is known only from the Knuckles Range. It is a small, gregarious lower canopy tree growing in remaining patches of submontane wet evergreen forest.

The species was first described by George Henry Kendrick Thwaites in 1854.

Other Stemonoporus plants

Stemonoporus acuminatus · Stemonoporus angustisepalus · Stemonoporus bullatus · Stemonoporus canaliculatus · Stemonoporus ceylanicus · Stemonoporus cordifolius · Stemonoporus elegans · Stemonoporus gardneri · Stemonoporus gilimalensis · Stemonoporus gracilis · Stemonoporus kanneliyensis · Stemonoporus laevifolius

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stemonoporus affinis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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